Welcome to our special issue: Poetry & the Visual, a rare full-colour version of the magazine, accompanied by 4 postcards featuring work by the artist/poets involved. Click here to read the Editorial. Features include: Iwan Bala on text and image in painting (see below) Matt Jarvis takes a historical perspective on concrete poetry, (see below) […] [...]
Read more about Spring 10, Issue 45.4 – Poetry and the Visual

Features: Nerys Williams on the horror of the Long Poem. Robert Minhinnick on the Llynfi Valley Matthew Jarvis and John Kinsella in dialogue about Welsh environments. John Goodby on the Hay Poetry Jamboree. Also, translations by John Barnie, Fflur Dafydd and Pascale Petit, and poems by Frances Presley, Peter Larkin, Mark Goodwin, Christopher Nield, Jason […] [...]
Read more about Autumn 09, Issue 45.2

This is the first issue with our new design, which we hope will make Poetry Wales even more of a pleasure to read. This issue features: Angela Carr and Samantha Wynne Rhydderch in dialogue Matthew Jarvis on poetic divisions in the 1990s Lee Harwood‘s memories of Frank O’Hara. There’s also a section of translations from […] [...]
Read more about Summer 09, Issue 45.1

The Spring ’09 issue of Poetry Wales includes features by John Kinsella on geodysplasia, Chris Paul on psychogeography in Newport, John Hartley Williams on nakedness, Matt Jarvis on Welsh poetry and politics in the 1980s and Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese on Zbigniew Herbert. Poems by Richard Berengarten, Janet Sutherland, Giles Goodland, David Hart, and Phil Maillard, plus [&hel [...]
Read more about Spring 09, Issue 44.4